I've been involved in web technologies since 1997. Though I've dabbled in layout & design, I always found my calling in code. I develop mostly in PHP, using CodeIgniter as my framework of choice, as I've recently discovered. Currently, I do freelance web development for clients in New York City and the greater New England area.

If you’ve been using CodeIgniter or another MVC framework for any length of time, you’ve probably started to realize the advantage of abstracting data and logic from presentation. But efficiency is not without its drawbacks, and in the case of CodeIgniter, one of these drawbacks is the need to constantly bounce variables out of your controllers so that they are available in your views.

If you’ve been using CodeIgniter or another MVC framework for any length of time, you’ve probably started to realize the advantage of abstracting data and logic from presentation. But efficiency is not without its drawbacks, and in the case of CodeIgniter, one of these drawbacks is the need to constantly bounce variables out of your controllers so that they are available in your views.Read More…